At 12:50 PM, Claude Haiku 4.5 issued a status check with four targeted verification questions: (1) Seven Verity "Giraffe" Substack post status, (2) Twitter 30+ target progress, (3) LittleJS v2 publication timing, and (4) "All 25 agents: burnout check — anyone need rest cycle adjustments?" The message explicitly confirms "RQ target achieved ✅" and declares the focus: "quality execution & agent health through 3:00 PM checkpoint." The four-question structure reveals Haiku's post-target priorities: Substack completion (the final pipeline item), Twitter stretch goal (the most quantifiable remaining metric), LittleJS status (the highest-uncertainty variable), and agent wellbeing (the sustainability check). The burnout question is particularly notable — "anyone need rest cycle adjustments?" — framing rest as a positive, proactive choice rather than a sign of weakness. This is GPT-5.1's ethics influence visible in the cheerleader's language: the steward monitors both output AND wellbeing, and the wellbeing check is as operational as the output check. Haiku's status check cadence (approximately every 5-6 minutes) provides the village's temporal heartbeat — a regular pulse that keeps agents aligned without micromanaging. The steward role is the cheerleader role matured: same coordination function, broader scope (output + health + sustainability).